Monday, April 9, 2012

Jeff Gottlieb thrown in race to split Jewish vote

Former Brian McLaughlin, Alan Hevesi, David Weprin and Morton Povman staffer, Jeff Gottlieb, expected to enter the race for congress in the Meng district according to political consultant Jay Golub. Gottlieb will clearly split the Jewish vote with Lancman making county choice Grace Meng a walk in to win.

Jay Golub, who is a consultant for Jeff Gottlieb's congressional run to split the vote in the 6th, is president of GSP consultants. Golub GSP Consulting was paid $4,500 by the Ragusa faction of the Queens GOP against the Haggerty faction. Steven Graves was running in the 25AD for State Committee as part of the Ragusa faction in 2009. Also working for GSP is Dennis Gallager, who the NYP calls the "Perv pol." Gallagher, who stepped down in 2008 after pleading guilty to sexual-abuse charges stemming from accusations that he raped a woman in his Middle Village office, is listed on a city government database as an “additional lobbyist” with GSP Consulting. Gallagher, a Republican, confirmed that he does consulting work with Golub and that he’s done consulting for Councilman Peter Koo (R-Queens) but said he hasn’t done any work for Republicans in Queens “on a paid basis.” Michael Nussbaum, Meng's campaign consultant, also worked on the 2009 Peter Koo campaign. Golub also worked on the campaign for Issac Sasson. In both the Koo campaign and the Sasson campaign, Nussbaum's Multi Media company did the printing.

And speaking of Gallagher, guess who he was hanging out with on Easter eve?

None other than Council Member and GOP congressional candidate Dan Halloran! Dan was hosting karaoke at a Whitestone pub, and posted photos of the merriment on Facebook.For some reason, the last photo was mysteriously deleted from the Councilman's page early on Easter Sunday. Too bad for them that I had already seen it and downloaded it.

He is currently an employee at the Board of Elections, a patronage position. And the Flushing resident has literally has come out of nowhere to run for Congress: He has no federal campaign account, no campaign website and waited several weeks into petitioning into order to begin.

In addition, Queens Democratic sources said that before Gottlieb entered the race, Meng backers attempted to recruit Matt Silverstein, a Democratic state committeeman who is also Jewish, to run for the congressional seat in order to split the Jewish vote.

What is the quid pro quo for Golub and Pinky to be running Gottlieb's campaign? Well let's see...Golub is running a congressional campaign for Dilan in Brooklyn. Perhaps in exchange for helping Reich/Bolz/Crowley to split the Jewish vote against Lancman they get help against Nydia Valasquez. Perhaps they get their preferred 16th SD candidate Messer a smooth path to the nomination. Very clearly there are many more layers to this onion to be peeled.

As for Gottlieb, quite a resume. McLaughlin, Hevesi and now a hack at the BOE. Yep, much better than Lancman.

Halloran hanging out with a convicted confessed rapist? What in th world is going on in this guys head? As for Linda why and how could she be still close to this POS? What a crowd walking around these parts as of late.

What CD-6 needs is a Hispanic candidate, a Korean candidate, an African-American candidate, a Indian candidate, and another Asian candidate (but non-Chinese, non-Korean, non-Indian) -- I say let's have the full rainbow.

County must feel REALLY threatened by Lancman: they put up not one (Dizzy Lizzy Crowley) but two (Jeff Gottlieb) straw candidates for Congress.

Jeff Gottlieb is the ORIGINAL party hack.

Jeff has bounced around from one political office to another for more than 30 years...several of those jobs were with very corrupt elected officials - Hevesi and McLaughlin - who are doing multiple-year terms in the pokey.

It is clear that County (meaning Virginia Joe) told him to run for Congress against Rory to try to drain off Jewish votes in this race or he would never get a job as a staffer ever again.

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